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fina

See also: FINA, Fina, finá, and fină

English

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fina

  1. African-American Vernacular form of fixing to: used to express a desire or future action.
    • 2008, Jodie Miller, quoting "Lisa", Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence, →ISBN:
      I'm like, "Well I'm fina catch the bus home," 'cause... my cousin was fina walk down to my auntie house but I wanted to go home.
    • 2011, Charlan M. Johnson, Once Lost... ...Now Found, →ISBN, page 8:
      "I'm fina make some money off yo' ass."
    • 2013, Jody Miller, quoting "Shauntell", “Case study: African American girls, urban inequality”, in The Oxford Handbook of Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration, →ISBN, page 267:
      Then [the girls] come out cryin', sayin' I'm fina go home.
    • 2013, Sami Martin, Kept Quiet: A Story of Family, Sex & Deceit, →ISBN, page 182:
      "I'm fina beat this bitch ass!"

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  • fina', The Rice University Neologisms Database

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Asturian

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fina

  1. third-person singular present indicative of finar
  2. second-person singular imperative of finar

Catalan

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fina

  1. feminine singular of fi

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fina

  1. inflection of finar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Esperanto

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Etymology

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From fino +‎ -a.

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  • IPA(key): [ˈfina]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ina
  • Hyphenation: fin‧a

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fina (accusative singular finan, plural finaj, accusative plural finajn)

  1. final

Galician

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fina

  1. feminine singular of fino

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fina

  1. inflection of finar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfi.na/
  • Rhymes: -ina
  • Hyphenation: fì‧na

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fina

  1. feminine singular of fino

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Maltese

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fina

  1. first-person plural pronominal form of f’: in us

Norwegian Nynorsk

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fina

  1. (dialectal, nonstandard since 1901) weak feminine/neuter singular of fin
    • 1980, Ingvar Moe, Sommaren te Ingebjerr, Oslo: Samlaget, page 11:
      Ingebjerr tåtte det va så kjekt atte noken vilde høyra om alt det fina og løgna som o hadde gjort på denna sommaren.
      Ingebjerr was delighted that someone would hear about all the nice and funny things she had been doing this summer.
  2. (obsolete, nonstandard since 1901) strong feminine plural of fin
    • 1974 [1850], Andris Vang, “Den forgjyltø skog”, in Gamla reglo å rispo ifrå Valdris, Universitetsforlaget, page 11:
      Å dæ æ tvær fina jamfrjugo, so bea um huus i nat, sa dei.
      And there are two fair virgins, who ask for lodging tonight, said they.

Occitan

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fina

  1. feminine singular of fin

Old English

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Etymology

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Unknown.

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Noun

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fina m

  1. woodpecker

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Declension of fina (weak)
Case Singular Plural
nominative fina finan
accusative finan finan
genitive finan finena
dative finan finum

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Portuguese

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  • Hyphenation: fi‧na

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fina

  1. feminine singular of fino

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fina

  1. inflection of finar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfina/ [ˈfi.na]
  • Rhymes: -ina
  • Syllabification: fi‧na

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fina

  1. feminine singular of fino

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fina

  1. inflection of finar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
  2. inflection of finir:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Swedish

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fina

  1. inflection of fin:
    1. definite singular
    2. plural
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